Message Display Highlighting for New Message Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices face challenges in clearly distinguishing new messages from historical messages, leading to user confusion and inconvenience, as current methods do not effectively highlight or separate new messages within conversational screens.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a processor and memory that displays a notification for new messages, detects user input, and displays new and historical messages based on a designated time interval, applying highlighting effects to new messages to enhance user focus and clarity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If new messages and historical messages are displayed together on the same screen, then users can access both new and historical messages efficiently, but users cannot easily identify which message is the new message
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by giving the new message distinct visual characteristics compared to historical messages. Specifically, the new message is displayed with different formatting (such as bold text, different background color, or special icons) to make it stand out locally within the message list, allowing users to quickly identify new messages without separating them from the historical message context.
2Loss of information
If all messages are displayed simultaneously, then users have complete information available, but users become confused about which historical messages are related to the new message
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by visually grouping messages into distinct sections or threads within the conversation screen. Related historical messages are segmented and organized around the new message, perhaps through visual dividers, thread indicators, or contextual grouping, allowing users to understand which historical messages are related to the new message without displaying all messages in a single undifferentiated list.
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AI summary
An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display, a memory storing historical messages previously transceived, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: based on reception of a new message, controlling the display to display a notification indicating the reception of the new message, detecting an input corresponding to the notification, and based on the user corresponding to the notification, controlling the display to display the new message and at least one historical message from among the historical messages and selected based on a designated time interval.